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Call Number: SC0220
Creator:
Schiff, Leonard I. (Leonard Isaac), 1915-
Creator:
Schiff, Leonard I., 1915-1971.
Title: Leonard I. Schiff papers
Dates: 1948-1971
Physical Description:
26 Linear feet
Summary: Professional correspondence, reports and committee papers
relating to Professor Schiff's work at Stanford as well as with the National Academy of
Science and NASA. Of note are papers relating to his term as head of the Physics
Department at Stanford 1948-66 and as a faculty leader. Also includes mimeographed
version of his textbook on quantum mechanics, 1947.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Mrs. Leonard Schiff, 1979.
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This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
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Leonard I. Schiff Papers (SC0220). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Professor of physics at Stanford University, 1947-1970; head of the Physics Department
1948-1966.
Professional correspondence, reports and committee papers relating to Professor Schiff's
work at Stanford as well as with the National Academy of Science and NASA. Of note are
papers relating to his term as head of the Physics Department at Stanford 1948-66 and as
a faculty leader. Also includes mimeographed version of his textbook on quantum
mechanics, 1947.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Barschall, H. H. (Heinrich Hermann),
1915-
Bloch, Felix , 1905-
Drell, Sidney D.
Hofstadter, Robert.
Kaplan, Henry S., 1918-
Schawlow, Arthur L., 1921-1999
Schiff, Leonard I., 1915-1971.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dept. of Physics.
United States. Air Force.
College teachers.
Nuclear physics --Research.
Physicists.
Physics.
Quantum theory.
Relativity (Physics)
Reports.